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Little River, TX | See Page 6 http://www.fb.org/newsroom/fbn/current_issue.pdf
Farm Bureau asks Senate to oppose water control bill Farmers and ranchers would face burdensome federal regulatory control if provisions of a restrictive Senate water bill make it through the upcoming “lame duck” session of Congress, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The session is set to begin Nov. 15.
AFBF and a coalition of other agricultural groups are vowing to oppose any effort to attach the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act (S. 1816) to any bill that might be addressed during the lame duck session.
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The groups wrote that one possible lame duck measure to which the bill could be attached is an omnibus “clean water” bill that combines several uncontroversial bills authorizing non-regulatory programs to help improve water quality in various regions of the country. Those bills could include the Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act (S. 3073), the Gulf of Mexico Restoration and Protection Act (S. 1311), the Columbia River Basin Restoration Act (S. 3550), the San Francisco Bay Restoration Act (S. 3539), the Clean Estuaries Act (H.R. 4715), the Puget Sound Recovery Act (S. 2739) and the Long
Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act (S. 3119).
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the administration has said that its Chesapeake initiative could be a model for increased environmental regulation in other parts of the country. Emphases added,
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New EPA Water Law coming.
